You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
You have to take care of your body.
You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.
I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.
We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.
You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.
Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.